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Gary Hamilton - as I was the Match Secretary of The SAFL during your playing days when we had 8 divisions and 4 reserve Divisions [ my Saturday night entertainment was making up the fixtures lol ] I have saw massive decline of The Amateur game within The SAFA. The numerous reasons have all been mentioned in the above posts. Personally I do not think that they is any one solution to solve it, however we could give some ideas a try even GAVT67 [ see above post ] point something I never ever considered. I have this season after a 4 year absence went back on The SAFA Council as a SAFL delegate and not one thing has changed since my first meeting back in the 80's on the procedure at council meetings, so in my view that's where we start. Do not get me wrong The SAFA have made massive strides especially with the Scottish Cup / Districts Cups organisation, but I reckon the below changes a worth considering. 1.Let the SFA run the amateur game with regionalised Leagues this will upset a few but travelling is a big issue within the current League set up's 2. Let players play when they want i.e. sat morning or sat afternoon. 3. limit the amount of players you can register 4. Do away with the clubs compulsory insurance policy's [ if a club wants it let them buy it ] 5. limit the amount of committees council delegates can sit on to one only [ this would allow different ideas to come forward at the moment its the same guys on them.] 6. Have Scottish Cup games one off 7. Limit the region Leagues to 12 teams in each division [ cuts out midweek football ] 8. Any monies made above a certain working limit are paid back to the clubs at the end of each season. 9. A flat fixed membership fee for all teams within the Region Leagues. [ none of the extras like speakers nights ] These ideas above may not be the answer but surely some are worth considering